{"id":29914,"date":"2021-03-19T14:12:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T05:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/michael-spavor-canada-criticises-china-after-trial-held-in-secret"},"modified":"2021-03-20T03:09:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:09:44","slug":"michael-spavor-canada-criticises-china-after-trial-held-in-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29914","title":{"rendered":"Michael Spavor: Canada criticises China after trial held in secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian diplomat among officials denied access to court for espionage trial, which ended without a verdict<\/p>\n<p>China held a secret one-day trial on Friday of the Canadian businessman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/canada-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor-trial-china-us-huawei\">Michael Spavor,<\/a> who has been detained for more than two years in China along with a compatriot in what their government describes as \u201chostage diplomacy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The trial on charges of espionage lasted just a few hours. The verdict was not immediately released, but Chinese courts have a conviction rate of 99%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/michael-spavor-canada-criticises-china-after-trial-held-in-secret\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian diplomat among officials denied access to court for espionage trial, which ended without a verdictChina held a secret one-day trial on Friday of the Canadian businessman Michael Spavor, who has been detained for more than two years in China al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,244,50,1829,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-meng-wanzhou","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29947,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914\/revisions\/29947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}